Surfer Bethany Hamilton wished to carry some pleasure to the Masked Singer stage, particularly for these going by way of a darkish time.
“All of us will face hardship in some unspecified time in the future or one other in our life,” the 34-year-old mentioned in an interview with Folks after being unmasked on the Wednesday, November 13, episode of the singing competitors collection. “And I actually simply wished to encourage individuals to know that they will endure and persevere, and a lot good and wonder can come from a few of the most terrible issues in life.”
Hamilton was revealed to be the well-known face underneath the Macaroon masks, getting eradicated after performing Carly Rae Jepsen’s tune “Name Me Perhaps.” Whereas her time on the present wasn’t lengthy, Hamilton was “grateful” for the expertise.
“After I first bought invited, I believed that they had been going to carry me on as a choose — I actually had no clue,” she mirrored. “I sing to my kids each single day, however I wouldn’t say it’s my present and life expertise. Perhaps I’ll follow browsing.”
Hamilton, who shares kids Tobias, 9, Wesley, 6, Micah, 3, and Alaya, 17 months, with husband Adam Dirks, isn’t any stranger to overcoming adversity. In 2003, she misplaced her left arm in a shark assault. The next yr, she returned to browsing and wrote a memoir titled Soul Surfer, which was made right into a film in 2011 starring AnnaSophia Robb.
“Anytime I’m going within the public eye is to remind individuals of overcoming the hardships in life,” she mentioned.
Hamilton’s look on The Masked Singer comes practically one month after her 3-year-old nephew, Andrew, died in a drowning accident. (Hamilton possible filmed her Masked Singer look earlier than Andrew’s dying.)
“The Lord has obtained my candy nephew Andrew into his lovely care. Whereas my household and I’ll miss him dearly, we belief that his pleasure is full with Jesus,” she wrote by way of Instagram in October. “Here’s a prayer of religion that was prayed by my brother, and our entire household, this final week. This prayer paints so extremely what it’s to have religion. Religion is to belief that God’s will for our life is larger than our personal. Thanks all for the love, prayers and help on this attempting time. Be blessed.”
Andrew is survived by his dad and mom, Hamilton’s brother Timothy and his spouse Kyah, and siblings Thomas, Joshua, Matthew, Noelle and John, in addition to his grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.